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sentences that state something as happening or true
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0 of 20 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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In the weeks leading up to Election Day, President Donald Trump repeatedly railed against public opinion polls that pointed to a potential blue wave for the Democrats in the midterms.
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that → lead → midterms
"I think it’s fake polls," the president argued.
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president → think → ?
"A lot of the polls are rigged."
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lot → rig → polls
It was an argument repeated by other top Republicans.
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It → repeat → Republicans
"The polls are all wrong all around the country," House Speaker Mike Johnson emphasized Sunday at a Trump rally in Iowa.
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Johnson → emphasize → Iowa
"I'm telling you, they're undercounting Republicans because Republicans are not participating in these polls anymore.
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Republicans → tell → polls
While public opinion polls have a history over the past decade of undercounting GOP voters — especially MAGA supporters — this time, pollsters say Democratic support, rather than Republican turnout, was underestimated.
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support → have → voters
"Polls probably, on average, undercounted Democrats significantly," veteran pollster Chris Anderson, the longtime Democratic partner on the Fox News Poll, said.
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Anderson → undercounte → Poll
Anderson, pointing to the massive blue wave that allowed Democrats to decisively recapture the House and Senate majorities in the midterms, told Fox News Digital, "This is sort of a seismic election and you can’t model for a seismic election.
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you → point → election
We definitely didn’t undercount Republicans, that’s for sure."
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that → undercount → Republicans
Daron Shaw, a veteran GOP pollster and the Republican partner on the Fox News Poll, emphasized, "If we’re talking about the direction of the polls, they were clearly correct."
But Shaw added "we probably underestimated Democratic vote share by a couple of points."
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we → emphasize → points
Shaw highlighted that "directionally, we knew heading into Election Day that Kansas was a dog fight.
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Kansas → highlight → Day
We knew that Texas was probably shifting blue.
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Texas → know → ?
That was just something that people had trouble getting their heads around but the data were pretty clear on that.
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data → have → that
I guess on Texas, the magnitude was surprising."
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magnitude → guess → Texas
Pollster David Paleologos, the director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center, agreed that "in general" there was "a slight undercount" of Democrats in public opinion surveys.
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Paleologos → agree → surveys
He noted that polls also undercounted Democrats in the 2025 gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia, where the Democratic candidates both won by larger-than-expected double-digit margins.
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candidates → note → margins
"We were low on the margins of victory," Paleologos told Fox News Digital.
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Paleologos → tell → Digital
"We were all undercounting Democrats."
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We → undercounte → Democrats
And pointing to the longstanding GOP case that MAGA voters are undercounted, Paleologos said, "I think to be fair going forward, it can't be a one-sided question anymore."
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it → point → case
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